Can routine gynecologic examination contribute to the diagnosis of cervical involvement by primary endometrial cancer?

European Journal of Gynaecological Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 497-499

  Pristauz, G ^a   Winter, R ^a   Fischerauer, E ^a   Haas, J ^a   Bjelic Radisic, V ^a   Bader, A A ^a   Petru, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cancer, cervical involvement; Endometrial; Routine gynecological examination

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COLPOSCOPY; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PARAMETER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREVALENCE; RECTAL PARAMETRIAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX PALPATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLPOSCOPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 70350064080     PISSN: 03922936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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